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Game testers say job isn't just a daily joyride

...their brains to anticipate every possible move a player might make -- no matter how improbable. At Electronic Arts in Redwood City, Calif., a tester working on Madden NFL 99, one of the company's football games, spent days trying to scurry...

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Ruling has Napster singing blues

...for and downloading copyrighted songs. Launched in 1999 and funded primarily by San Francisco venture capitalists, Redwood City, Calif.-based Napster enables users to search for and copy songs stored on each others' computers. Napster provides...

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Subscribe to a video game?

...of ordinary households, is also expected online in 2002 from Maxis. Meanwhile, Maxis' parent, Electronic Arts of Redwood City, has been making a name for itself at ea.com, which charges as little as $5 a month for access to online sports...

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Uncertainty marks rollout of next-generation wireless in U.S

...third-quarter losses of 3 cents a share and cut at least 300 jobs, or 13 percent of its work force. Executives of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which sells to nearly all U.S. wireless carriers, said more than terrorism was to blame...

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Judge suspends medical license for doctor accused of killing son

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday denied bail and suspended the medical license of a Minnesota obstetrician accused of traveling...

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Technology for challenging spam is challenged

...and will not realize all the bad things that will begin happening," said Steve Atkins, an anti-spam consultant in Redwood City, Calif. "Challenge-response is very, very unfriendly and rude to legitimate senders of e-mail." It typically...

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Flat world fatigue: Globalization breeds interminable work day

...president of engineering at financial services software company Yodlee Inc., supervises 170 engineers, including 30 in Redwood City and 140 in Bangalore, India. Managers recently began alternating weekly meetings between 8 a.m. Wednesdays and...

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Cleaning up a reputation for pestering pop-ups

...through software on some 40 million computer desktops. The 7-year-old company, which has 235-odd employees at its Redwood City, Calif., headquarters and other locations, began a pilot in May of a new ad network called BehaviorLink that serves...

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ALL IN THE FAMILY

...fire truck," Kim wrote. "Grandma Cheryl Miller, Redwood City, Calif., submitted this photograph of "The Whole...their licenses this year." "Grandma Cheryl Miller, Redwood City, Calif., submitted this photograph of "The Whole...

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For advertisers, they're not just games

...publishers to offer advertising in their games, including UbiSoft Entertainment, Activision Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. Redwood City, Calif.-based EA recently expanded a deal with Microsoft to place ads in some of its bestselling titles. The game...

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